Posted: February 1st, 2010 | Author: Gritchelle | Filed under: Art, Graphic Design, Printed, School, san francisco | Tags: book, collaborative, diy perfect bound, map, upper haight | No Comments »
I Haight Art was a collaborative project between myself and three other designers: Maria Alvarez, Zhen Tan and Silvia Cassone.
This project was a documentation of the art seen all around the Upper Haight. Creativity is everywhere from the murals, shop galleries, graffiti and the eclectic store fronts and window displays. The book was perfect bound by yours truly. My other responsibilities included art direction, layout and customizing the blog.
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Posted: February 1st, 2010 | Author: Gritchelle | Filed under: Graphic Design, Information Design, Printed, School, posters | Tags: bikes, Eames, Information Design, South by Southwest | No Comments »
I had the awesome opportunity to take Information Design (DAI 523) with Prof. Trogu. If you’re a DAI student, I highly recommend this class. It’s a great introduction to info design. We learned how to gather information (through researching and web scraping), organize the data and the various forms of visualizations. If you’re new to this area of design, check out the site Many Eyes to to get your feet a little wet. Also, if you want to see some really rad examples of info design, check out Good Magazine, Information is Beautiful, and Info Aesthetics.
As you might have remembered, I posted a concept map I did in the beginning of the semester. More has been done since then:
This was the final assignment, which was my favorite (and scale wise, the biggest) project of the entire semester. Aside from the fact that we finally got to design information, I liked the fact that it entailed designing a large poster (34 x 44 in) that can be folded down to 8.5 x 11. I really would have loved to have been able to design more large scale pieces at SF State. Yes it’s a little costly, but I enjoyed (and want more of) the challenge of designing at a larger scale.
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Posted: January 30th, 2010 | Author: Gritchelle | Filed under: Graphic Design, Printed, School, Web Design | Tags: booklet, dai 505, senior project | 2 Comments »
The NOPA Renter’s Resource Guide to Gardening & Landscaping is the result of hours of researching, surveying and interviewing for my senior research and development class. In addition to the final designs, I also wrote all the copy in the booklet and turned in a huge report.
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Posted: January 29th, 2010 | Author: Gritchelle | Filed under: Graphic Design, Information Design, School | Tags: Maps, process book | 1 Comment »
The following are (iPhone) snapshots of a process book and some maps for a project in my advance graphic design class. For this project we were put into teams of three and given a neighborhood in SF to explore. As a team we were to explore the neighborhood and document everything and anything that caught our eyes, ears and even taste buds. Then as individuals, we got to decide on what we wanted to focus on for that particular neighborhood.
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Posted: January 25th, 2010 | Author: Gritchelle | Filed under: Graphic Design, School, logo | Tags: silhouettes | 2 Comments »
Here’s a logo design I did for one of my projects in my advance graphic design class.
Making these silhouettes was tons of fun.
Stay tuned for the rest of the project!
Posted: December 21st, 2009 | Author: Gritchelle | Filed under: School | 2 Comments »
but the Gretch is finally done with school!
Yes!
Posted: September 28th, 2009 | Author: Gritchelle | Filed under: School, aiga sfsu, letterpress | 1 Comment »
I recently became the Vice President of the newly formed AIGA Student Group at SFSU and much of my time has been devoted to working with the other officers to get the group up and running. One of our main agenda’s is to organize the long neglected letterpress studio in the design department. My buddies James (president) and Kim (communications director) and I have been spending our lunch breaks sorting through boxes of metal type. We’ve been hard at work and slowly but surely, we’ve made a a good size dent. Of course, we wouldn’t be where we’re at today without the help of the fellow officers and members who have also volunteered their time. Hopefully, we can get all the type organized and get the presses running very soon. I’m crossing my fingers.
Yours truly in the white shirt :) Kim right next to me and one of our awesome volunteers Nate.
Kim’s logo idea for the group
More experimentation
Scattered wood type
Photos are courtesy of Kim and James.
